Example sentences of "[pron] would have been [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back home she 'd have been in some nice comfortable clinic . |
| 2 | If I had my way you 'd have been off this boat days ago . |
| 3 | We must never forget , mind , either you or me , if it had n't been for Mrs Aggie and her yard , God knows where we would have been at this minute . |
| 4 | Do you imagine that we are the way we are about money because of mother or because we would have been like that anyway ? ’ |
| 5 | This is the question which everyone ought to ask himself , and the only question — are we as a nation in a better position to prosecute the war as a consequence of it than we would have been by any other arrangement ? |
| 6 | In fact they are no more adequate for primitive societies than they would have been for any others . |
| 7 | And they would have been at that muckle supper . |
| 8 | And he came down he would have been working for he would have been at that time my great grandfather maybe or and he came down and he lived in lower Millfield after that and just as soon as he was out of his house , they just had the house demolished . |
| 9 | At that time he would have been like many thousand of other youngsters , the sweepings of the hungry ‘ forties . |
| 10 | If the contract had been ‘ straightforward ’ then it would have been worth half the £1.31 million that he was to be paid . |
| 11 | If I could have departed then , never reentered the house , it would have been with some strength of mind . |
| 12 | It would have been of little comfort to investors to learn that Chairman John Wheeler had , according to former business colleagues , been living a luxury lifestyle , spending almost £70,000 on refitting his yacht , and thousands of pounds renovating his six-bedroom house . |
| 13 | Everything was very hush-hush , and it was not until it was over that the name of the target was made common knowledge — not that it would have been of any interest to us if we had known beforehand , because none of us had ever heard of it . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , it seems highly improbable that had it been pursued the ‘ revolutionary ’ alternative , deprived as it would have been of any significant outside help , would have proved any more successful . |